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Quotes by Mexican Authors

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."

"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."


"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

"Globalization is a fact of economic life."

"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."

"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."

"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."

"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."


"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."

"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."


"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."

"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."

"A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries."

"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."

"We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them."

"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."

"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."

"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."


"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."
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